Happy Monday!
I’ve been thinking about gifts and re-gifts today. I know someone who is a notorious re-gifter. She accidentally gives people back gifts that they bought for her, as well as gifts that were obviously bought for her by other people. She has given people gifts with cards tucked into the box that are addressed to her. She’s shameless about it.
Why do I think this is so tacky? It’s because she’s ignoring two underlying beliefs about presents.
The first is that...